GLOBAL AKTION - Peo eople and Pla lanet Before Profit! A bit about - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

GLOBAL AKTION - Peo eople and Pla lanet Before Profit!

A bit about Denmark • Smallest Scandinavian country, part of EU • Capitol city: Copenhagen • 6 million people • Surrounded by the sea • Second most cultivated country on Earth (over 60% of the country is agricultural land – however only 2 % of employment) • High consumption, and home to some evil corporations: Mærsk, Arla, Danish Crown

Global Aktion • Activist-based solidarity organization in Copenhagen, Denmark • 100 activists organized in different working groups (and a small staff) • Work with and support like-minded social movements and grassroot organizations in Europe and Africa (and the rest of the world) • Support people fighting for their collective political and socioeconomic rights • Political campaigns internationally and in our ” own backyard ” as well

History ry • Started in support of the fight to end apartheid in South Africa (name: the Sydafrika Komiteen) • After apartheid ended, supported people’s struggles across Southern and Eastern Africa (name: Afrika Kontakt) • Now: Realizing that the struggle and its roots are globalized, the solutions must be global too (name: Global Aktion)

What do we we work for? WE WANT TO SMASH OPPRESSIVE POWER STRUCTURES – CAPITALISM, PATRIARCHY, IMPERIALISM! We work with four overall topics:  A fair trade system based on solidarity and justice (against neoliberal free trade regimes)  Climate justice and food sovereignty  Local ownership over natural resources (against ressource grabbing)  Dismantle power and fight for real and active democracy and workers ’ rights  Cross thematically: Intersectional feminism and anti-racism

Partners, allies, , campaigns • CARES, Mauritius • La Via Campesina Southern and Eastern Africa • Trust for Community Outreach and Education (TCOE), South Africa • Justicia Ambiental (JA!), Mozambique • Swaziland United Democratic Front (SUDF), Swaziland • Institute for Young Women’s Development (IYWD), Zimbabwe • Saharawi Campaign Against the Plunder, Western Sahara • Transnational Institue (TNI), the Netherlands • Friends of the Earth, Denmark & Europe • Clean Clothes Campaigns • Corporate Europe Obervatory, Belgium • Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power • Right 2 Say No Campaign • And many more

Strugg ggles in Denmark • Food sovereignty – campaign for a national land reform (Danish Forum for Food Sovereignty) • Against free trade deals (Network for Solidarity Trade) • Just policy action on climate change (demonstrations, advocacy) • Fighting corporate state capture (Danish Corporate Watch)

Thanks for listening!